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For the next 2 weeks this event will be running.
Fury of the Dragon alert
ZEN Store
The Crimson Key Pack will be available for 1 week.
Auras
Recognition
Costumes
For the next 2 weeks this event will be running.
- New Mission: Complete the Streets Run Red mission 10 times, rewards the Crimson Belt costume.
- New Mission: Complete the Fury of the Dragon alert 5 times, rewards the Crimson Shoulders costume.
- Added Champion recognition reward to the daily missions.
- Added Questionite reward to the costume missions.
- Artifact drops will now be more consistent.
Fury of the Dragon alert
- Now has a chance to drop Melee Weapon Aura: Electric.
ZEN Store
The Crimson Key Pack will be available for 1 week.
- Cost: 900 ZEN
- 10x Cosmic Keys of Powers
- 1x Crimson Armor Costume
Auras
- (Right) weapon auras will now only work on the following powers: Single Blade, TK Blades, Heavy Weapons, Laser Sword, Fighting Claws, Dual Blades, Id Blades.
- Added (Single) weapon auras. These will work on the following powers: Single Blade, TK Blades, Heavy Weapons, Laser Sword.
- Added (Dual) weapons auras. These will work on the following powers: Fighting Claws, Dual Blades, Id Blades.
- Added (Left) weapons auras. These will work on the following powers: Fighting Claws, Dual Blades, Id Blades.
- Fixed an issue where these auras would not always properly cancel out when swapping powers, and where they would sometimes not work at all.
- The color of these auras is now tied to the power being used. (This is a result of the changes made to address the various issues these auras had).
Recognition
- Added Sorcery melee weapon auras to the Champion Recognition store.
Costumes
- Added Rope arm accessory costume.
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The event only lasts for one week, though. What's the point? Unless it's a typo from the newspage announcing the event?
While it looks like this opens up some great customization options it also closes just as many.
Specifically, having the Aura inherit power color makes it so a dual bladed character like one of my Id Blade users can no longer use Auras to have 2 different color blades.
Magic swordsman with 2 different magic blades? Nope.
Heavy weapon user using Brimstone wants a glowing red blade but not red flames? too bad.
Different attacks with even the same weapons constantly changing the colors of the weapon auras? Yes, pretty cool actually, but this was already possible with binds just way more clunky.I understand that this was a work around to fix some issues with the auras but it's not really a "fix" if it removes functionality.
Please put some more time into this and see if it's possible to have it work the way i'm sure we would all want it to.
It would also be great to have white/black versions but that is not possible with this power color based system, unless you figure out a way to let us have white/black powers. In which case YES! Do That!
Having "Single" be the old style and "Dual, Right, Left" be the new style would be a decent work around until/unless a true fix is made possible.lastly, since you brought up weapon auras, please take a look at Night Claws costume, the aura is floating next to the inside of the wrist and not anywhere near the claws.TY for all the work you do.
I can only hope this means that the Krackle weapon aura (and the other one which i don't remember the name anymore) that was never released on Live and was forgotten and remove from PTS will return! While I understand this was made to address issues with the game's engines!
It absolutely murders the concept of asymmetrical aura colouring as well as Two-Colours tone
What If I wanted to make a Dual-Blade character who uses both Fire and Ice powers and wanted to have one blade coloured Red while the other Blue? 🙄
Now they are going to be the same colour no matter what!
Yeah this is very disappointing change!
Circling really fast across my characters just to test something only to discover the aura is broken for many weapon skins and perhaps doesn't register certain HW powers at all!
[Melee Weapon Aura: Sorcery (Right)]
1. HW Guard and Single Blade Deflect Blocks activates it even outside combat! Because I always forget to colour melee weapon blocks its default Blue! If you use Which persists during combat even while using other weapon powers with different colours so the colour stays blue even if other powers are not the same!
2. Doesn't work with the Lance weapon skin anymore (tested only on HW) and probably its broken
3. Doesn't work the the ICE Swords skin anymore (HW) ok this breaks my own concept aesthetic now! It was working perfectly before the update! It DOES WORK on the TK version of Ice sword however
4. Wasn't working with the Viking Hammer (HW) until I changed instance and visit my hideout
5. Tested it on Gear Sword only to discover that Ark of Ruin (RANK 1 with 2 advs) wasn't activating the Aura at all! Had to use a different power!
6. I'm getting inconsistent results with Glory Axe (HW) which lead me to believe starting the combat with specific HW powers doesn't activate the aura at all! Perhaps the reason some of the weapons above werent working?
Nothing except Guard was activating the aura until I changed instance! Then the Aura broke and stop working again! [Earth Splitter], [Brute Strike], [Vicious Descent] and [Crushing Ruin] along with Guard seem to only trigger it
Then using [Annihilate] as first attack doesn't activate the aura at all for the rest of the combat phase!
7. Heavy Macahuitl (HW exlusive weapon)! Mixed results again! made me realize another thing!
If you don't start the combat with an opening power that activates the aura ([Eruption] or [Vicious Descent]) for this character), it won't turn on at all until next combat!
Binding the aura with the weapon's powers cause a huge mess here 😵💫
I am at least glad one character can farm everything in the event. Those artifact drops on the PTS took 40 minutes since one was refusing to drop.
BUG: Unrelenting is still broken
This is a big journey, so far if you're reading this, wish you a good day
Kael is famous/infamous for his sloppiness about dates and times. If there is a conflict it's likely he got it wrong.
Overall, I like the new auras (though it would be great if they were aligned better on some weapons and was only on the blade part where appropriate) but the state of their launch seems bad.
I wish The Crimson Armor didn't clip with the Oni Slayer costume pants. Reason is that this is one of the few Asian centric costumes pieces.
Edit:
I found a work around. Space Western with less plumage but I increased upper leg slider. Noe just waiting on that Crimson Belt to she if it works.
It would be very nice to have the artifacts land within the 5 groups we're required to hunt for Streets Run Red. Sometimes they come quick, but often not...I've taken as many as 10 groups before getting them all, and Water and Wind seem to be the most stubborn. For those of us running this mission on multiple alts, we could definitely use better drop rates.
Vary WIDELY...but I find you land the set much more over 5 groups, than under.
Why would you run this on alts, as the rewards are account wide?
There is no event store, nor is there currency for Red Banner.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline#/discussion/1217880/fc-31-20221116-42-lockbox